Qoros 3 Hatch wins Red Dot Design Award

The Qoros 3 Hatch, which made its first global appearance in Geneva last month, has won one of the world’s leading design prizes, a Red Dot Award. An ‘Honourable Mention’ accolade went to the young Chinese carmaker’s second model, in recognition of its “striking and particularly successful detail solutions.”

In early March the carmaker’s first model, the Qoros 3 Sedan, received the Universal Design Award 2014 for outstanding product quality. The Qoros 3 Sedan is the first Chinese car in history to get a five-star Euro NCAP safety rating; not only that, it achieved the highest overall Euro NCAP score last year.

“For our international team these awards are both an honour and an incentive,” said design head Gert Volker Hildebrand. “In our designs, which are inspired by contemporary European automotive styling themes, we are integrating our own very distinctive touches to give our fledgling brand an identity of its own that will make it unmistakable.”

While most dream of the future, Jonathan Tan dreams of the past, although he's never been there. Fantasises much too often about cruising down Treacher Road (Jalan Sultan Ismail) in a Triumph Stag that actually works, and hopes this stint here will snap him back to present reality.

Exactly, red dot is quite a well known award in the design world and is not specifically limited to cars. The designs from BMW and Audi are crap and unimaginative. This is from a die hard BMW driver who has three in his garage.

I think why proton design is way outdate because they employ engineer not car designer. Other car maker employ automotive designer to design the car and employ automotive engineer to materialize the design.

Is it available in RHD? I think it deserves the award for its highest ever NCAP rating. Volvo is also Chinese owned and so the commentors posting about inferior Chinese products need to all look at their I phones and macs and lenovo pc’s. all at the head of their game and made in China (Even black berry used by Obama made in China.)

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